Word: manhattan
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YUKIKO IRWIN, who attended both Tokyo Women's Christian College and Indiana University, is descended from Benjamin Franklin. She lives in Manhattan, where she is an expert in shiatzu, a finger-pressure therapy similar to Chinese acupuncture. Her grandfather, a Philadelphia trader, went to Japan in 1866 and wed a local woman in the first legally sanctioned marriage of an American and a Japanese. Her father also married a Japanese...
George Plimpton, no punk at the business, is at it again. Named the commissioner of fireworks for New York City in 1973, Plimpton, author and professional Mittyman, is not even burned up that Macy's offered him no role in its $50,000 spectacular, which will blaze across Manhattan's skies on the night of July 4. Instead he will set off his own twelfth annual display at Amagansett, N.Y., and trust that he won't be arrested for his pyrotechnics-as he was four years ago when he failed to get the necessary permits...
...monkey on his back last week-and a whole jungle of would-be actors on his hands. Preparing to shoot the closing scenes in his new version of King Kong, the film maker placed a newspaper ad requesting unpaid volunteers for a crowd scene at the foot of Manhattan's World Trade Center. Instead of the 5,000 people expected, nearly four times that number showed up to see Kong bleed Karo syrup and breathe his last. ("A mob of paid extras is one thing," said a nervous production chief, "but this is a mob of New Yorkers!") Though...
...soon clear, however, that after months of waiting, anxious New York citizens and soldiery faced more waiting still. As the British fleet came on, the lead ships, instead of continuing north for a quick assault on Manhattan, turned toward Staten Island. Clouds of canvas blossomed in the lower harbor -more frigates and transports (130 vessels carrying 9,300 troops) than anyone in the Colonies had ever before seen assembled. When at last the fleet was anchored and its sails were struck, the bare masts reminded one Continental soldier of a "wood of pine trees trimmed." Noted Private Daniel McCurtin...
...morally objectionable, the only way open was a defense that would show the flag and yet make the British pay heavily for taking the city. He persuaded Washington to 1) keep most of his troops dispersed around New York and 2) concentrate on entrenched artillery along the rivers around Manhattan. Washington still hopes to keep British ships, especially troop transports, from moving freely up and down the rivers to outflank him. To this end he has also placed chevaux-de-frise (chains of sunken hulks studded with stakes just beneath the water line) between New Jersey and Fort Washington, just...